Thursday, March 28, 2019
The Unexpected Downside of Science Explored in Aldous Huxleys Brave Ne
The Unexpected Downside of Science Explored in Aldous Huxleys hold out sore solid groundSince the first day that humans were put on this earth, they carry been curious and have searched for ways to become more efficient. Throughout the eld they have created tools to better serve them, created clothing to keep them warm, built homes to nurse them from the elements, and produced transportation methods to transport them across the world. In Aldous Huxleys Brave rude(a) World (1932), the human speed has evolved to being extremely efficient in everything that they do. This efficacy includes producing new human beings. Science has taken over and altered the society. judge not having a family to care for you or you for them. In Huxleys book, giving family to a baby was simply not done. In Huxleys new world, babies were produced sort of than being born from a mother. These babies were then physically and mentally fledged according to their set task in life. They were created acco rding to what position they would take on in life. From the time that they were produced, they were conditioned to the likes of what they were to do and only that. They were taught to like what they had and not want anything else. Because of this conditioning, everyone had a place in society and together, everyone created a happy society.In Huxleys book, when two people decide to think otherwise than the rest of society, they are sent away to islands. Then when a mortal who was born outside of this new society was placed into it, he could not adapt and tried to escape from it. The new society, however, would not leave the outlander alone, so the outsiders only escape from the new world was death.The advancement of recognition altered the culture of humans in Ald... ...of society that John could find.Aldous Huxleys Brave New World describes what could become of our present society if we let comprehension take over. We live in a society filled with do, hate, enjoyment and sad ness. We have people to care more or less and people that care about us. Humans always look for more efficient ways to stand by them in their present day lives. Brave New World shows us what could happen to society if we were to become efficient in reproduction. The human race would be more efficient, but would lose all sense of love and caring. People would lose the experience of having a family. Science can be helpful to humans, but it can also have detrimental effects to our culture. Brave New World shows us that if we are not careful, the advances of intuition will take over our lives. Works CitedHuxley, Aldous. Brave New World. New York Harper & Row, 1969.
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